My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
LANGSTON HUGHESLet the rain sing you a lullaby.
More Langston Hughes Quotes
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Pleasured equally In seeking as in finding, Each detail minding, Old Walt went seeking And finding.
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Why should I want to be white? I am a Negro – and beautiful!
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I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa.
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If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.
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Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.
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I stay cool, and dig all jive, That’s the way I stay alive. My motto, as I live and learn, is Dig and be dug In return.
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A world I dream where black or white, Whatever race you be, Will share the bounties of the Earth And every man is free.
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Let America be America, where equality is in the air we breathe.
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Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.
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Most musicians remain poor. But the music that they make, even if it does not bring them millions, gives millions of people happiness.
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Reach Up Your Hand… and take a star.
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The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.
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A dog gets lonesome just like a human. He wants to associate with other dogs, but when they take him out, the poor dog is on a leash and cannot run around.
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life.
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A picture, to be an interesting picture, must be more than a picture, otherwise it is only a reproduction of an object, and not an object of value in itself.
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